Wednesday, July 13, 2011

DJ Fresh to tour

DJ Fresh feat Sian Evans – “Louder”
Track List
1. “Louder”

2. “Louder (Peace Treaty Mix)”

Pre Order “Louder”



NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES



July 29 - Atlanta - Quad

July 30 - Los Angeles - Audiotistic Festival @ National Orange Show Event Center

July 31 - Vancouver - Fortune Sound Club

August 3 – San Francisco - Club 525

August 4 - Austin - Republic Live

August 5 – Salt Lake City - The Complex

August 6 - Salmo, British Columbia - Shambhala Music Festival



ABOUT DJ FRESH



In 1998, At just 19 years of age DJ Fresh (AKA Daniel Stein) started the now legendary drum n’ bass band Bad Company (called the 'Wu-Tang of drum and bass' by NME) and their first release ‘The Nine’ was voted ‘Best track of all time’ by 130,000 members of the influential website Drum and Bass arena. In 2003 DJ Fresh split up Bad Company so he could pursue solo work – but - the final Bad Company track, 'Mo-Fire', was a massive hit and landed at 22 in the UK national charts. Throughout its run Bad Company would go on to win virtually every accolade thinkable for a drum and bass act and were a phenomenon across the globe.



Beyond music production, DJ Fresh was also behind the 2001 launch of Dogs On Acid - one of drum n’ bass’ first (and to this day) most influential online communities. Dogs On Acid originally started as a bulletin board on Bad Company's website to discuss everything drum and bass and its currently home to the largest online drum and bass community in the world having reached in the tens of millions in posts and holding over 85.000 members. Through the years the site is responsible for discovering lot’s of great new talent including Noisia and Pendulum, among many others. Dogs On Acid also runs the music labels: Breakbeat Kaos, Dogs On Acid and Under Construction and promotes and organizes various parties worldwide.



Just a few months after disbanding Bad Company DJ Fresh produced 'Miracles' with Adam F for The Pet Shop Boys as the lead single for the iconic acts greatest hits album. It reached number 4 on the UK charts; an almost unprecedented proliferation into the national charts for a genre that is so hi tech and underground. Later in 2003, DJ Fresh started the label Breakbeat Kaos with super-producer Adam F and immediately signed Pendulum having brought them from their native home of Australia and resettled them in his London home. After an incredible escalation of PR and radio hype Pendulum became possibly the biggest phenomenon to grace drum and bass since the nineties. Their album Hold Your Colour was hailed as an instant classic worldwide, and is the first gold album to appear on an independent drum and bass label.



As the decade moved on the scene was shifting away from dark and moody sounds and began embracing rock hybrids and rich, complex song structures that would propel it into the mainstream. DJ Fresh releases have continued to push this renaissance further. Pushing the sound he describes as “future jungle”, he's managed to make tracks like last year's vocal rework of his 2008 track “Gold Dust” reach out to new audiences, while keeping the rude energy of the initial 1990s explosion at their heart. And as the support of Zane Lowe and Annie Mac has placed his tracks at the heart of the new eclecticism, so he has begun to expand his tempo range. Inspired by newcomers like Flux Pavilion, Jack Beats and Dillon Francis, he has taken on jump-up dubstep, electro, Dutch house and even moombahton rhythms.

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